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All The Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVZCDnMOq0qLoYpkeySVtfdbQg1A_GiB

You will learn a lot.

Me: Steven Lott | NoSQL doesn't mean No Schema

Steven Lott | The Five Kinds of Python Functions

You may learn something from my presentations.

https://slott56.github.io/five-kinds-of-python-functions Update: Steven Lott | The Five Kinds of Python Functions

First. Read this: http://webapplog.com/10-conf-donts/

Some additional thoughts on the don't list.

1. Avoid reading to your audience unless you are a poet, journalist, judge or politician. Poets and journalists are paid to write well and read there words well. Judges and politicians are paid to be ultra precise …

See this: https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/786920174595158018

The core expression is similar to this

y = (f(x) for x in L if f(x) is not None)

There are a lot of variations on the filter. The point is that the function appears twice in the above expression.

We …

This: https://opensource.com/business/16/9/alternatives-powerpoint Missing from the list? The S5-based slide-show tools that are part of docutils. The only issue with S5 is that you need to carefully review each and every page to be sure you material fits. There's no autosizing of the fonts, or …

Some thoughts: http://workingwithdevs.com/delivering-databases-migrations-vs-state/

This covers a lot of ground on the Declarative vs. Procedural question. It explains a lot of the considerations that lead to choosing a procedural schema evolution vs. a declarative schema with an implied change sequence to migrate to each new declared state.

The …

Check out this idiocy: https://github.com/slott56/py-false

What is the point? Seriously. What. The. Actual. Heck?

I think of it this way.

• Languages are a cool thing. Especially programming languages where there's an absolute test -- the Turing machine -- for completeness.
• The Forth-like stack language is a cool thing …

Something I forget to think about is the degree of detail or granularity of design patterns. I have my own viewpoint and I often assume that others share it.

Here's a quote from an email describing the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) patterns as quite distinct from the Gang of …